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From: martillo@crackers.clearpoint.com (Martillo)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re: all of the ethernets interfaces with the same address!?
Message-ID: <1903@crackers.clearpoint.com>
Date: 5 Apr 91 23:26:02 GMT
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In article <33874@boulder.Colorado.EDU> BILLW@mathom.cisco.com (WilliamChops Westfield) writes:

>    I think cisco routers know how to put more than one IP
>    address per port, anyway.   At least that is what I
>    was told.

>This is true.  I can't think of any reason to connect more than one
>ethernet interface in a router to the same cable segment.

Hardware fault tolerance might be a legitimate reason.

>Bill Westfield

Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo Ajami